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Broward Sheriff's Lt. David Benjamin, Al Lamberti's own "executive officer," received From Dirty Developers
$30,000 from Scott Rothstein for his outside consulting firm, according to a former close
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The Sheriff's Office is currently Oops, Stacy Did It Again

investigating Benjamin's firm, DWB
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Consulting Group, a Delaware company
incorporated in Florida in May with the
help of then-Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler Benjamin is at the far right.
attorney Christina Kitterman. It's not
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known if Benjamin paid for the services of Rothstein's law firm. Sheriff's spokesman Jim
Leljedal said he couldn't comment on the investigation. enter email
Benjamin, who helped strategize and organize Lamberti's political campaign last year, and
Rothstein were close friends. The lieutenant accompanied Rothstein to the G-5 jet when he
fled the country for Morocco on October 27. It's not known if Benjamin was compensated
for that act.

At the same time, Rothstein, in an apparent attempt at setting up his former friend Moe
Sohail, claimed that Benjamin was working with him as a bag man of sorts. Read the post
below for more on that.

We also know that Benjamin was a guest in Rothstein's luxury box at Land Shark Stadium
for at least one Dolphins football game. Leljedal said he believes that is permitted under
department policy.

Lamberti removed Benjamin from his role overseeing Internal Affairs shortly after it was
learned he assisted Rothstein's bolt from the country.

-- Gov. Charlie Crist just suspended Rothstein from the Judicial Nominating Commission
for the Fourth District Court of Appeals. That Charlie, he's always so swift and decisive. It
only took him three weeks. He replaced Rothstein with William Berger. (No, not former
judge and RRA attorney William Berger of Boca Raton, but William Berger of Greenspoon
Marder in Fort Lauderdale.)

-- There is some serious heat being applied right now to Judge Herbert Stettin, the receiver Broward/Palm Beach
appointed to oversee the Rothstein bankruptcy. Miami attorney Richard Sharpstein is Classifieds
alleging that Stettin improperly
buy, sell, trade (5,868) musician (1,245)
ran a private legal practice while serving as a judge.
rentals (15,300) jobs (4,544)
The allegations "raise serious questions about Judge Stettin's fitness to continue as a
personals (7,227) adult entertainment (16,218)
fiduciary for the victims of the Rothstein scandal, who have every right to demand the
appointment of an honest and independent trustee to protect their interests," Sharpstein
and his client, wealthy investor Peter Halmos, wrote in a press release on the matter.

Here are the major points raised by Sharpstein on a website devoted to the judge's alleged
transgression (and here's a link to a Stettin "white paper")
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Abusing his judicial office and the Miami Dade Courthouse for personal gain by Delray Beach
conducting a constitutionally prohibited private law practice while concurrently
serving as an appointed sitting Senior Circuit and Associate Fourth District Court of
Appeals Judge with chambers and a courtroom in the Miami Dade Courthouse;
Filing false sworn financial and gift disclosures with the State of Florida since
1999 that conceal the sources of millions of dollars in payments and mislead as to Dub City Derby Girl
the activity of his sole proprietorship law firm, Hebert Stettin P.A.; Wrestle it out at
Using the American Arbitration Association as a billing conduit to facilitate the Respectable Street
ability of local lawyers and law firms to secretly and indirectly hire and pay Judge
Stettin while at the same time appearing in his courtroom;
Wielding his judiciary power, under color of state authority as a sitting judge, in
private arbitration proceedings to improperly confiscate millions of dollars in assets B.o.B. at Revolution
to fund his law firm's activity; Live
Appointing "cronies" to a receivership whereby over a span of five years millions
of dollars were misappropriated;
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real or appearance of conflicts created by Judge Stettin's ties to members of the
Rothstein Law Firm. Such ties include: Judge Stettin's recruitment by and lengthy More Slideshows >>
collaboration with Judge Barry Stone (now a member of the Rothstein Law Firm),
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